Supply Chain Management Contracts

Supply Chain Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Supply Chain Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Supply Chain Management over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 487 575
Rank change year-on-year +35 +88 +65
Contract jobs citing Supply Chain Management 72 114 141
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.26% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.31% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 72 89
10th Percentile £350 £432 £413
25th Percentile £491 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -2.65% -1.74%
75th Percentile £688 £641 £650
90th Percentile £778 £725 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £519 £555 £600
% change year-on-year -6.53% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £15.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £21.67 £21.01 £89.78
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -76.60% +80.45%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £92.16
90th Percentile - £69.00 £96.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £18.26 £89.78
% change year-on-year - -79.67% +80.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Supply Chain Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,651 37,268 53,074
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.87% 86.35% 89.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,180 24,016 36,805
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £745 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,087 2,439 1,749
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.44 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £35.80
Median % change year-on-year -19.33% +0.42% +43.20%
75th Percentile £61.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%

Supply Chain Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Supply Chain Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Supply Chain Management in the UK

Supply Chain Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Supply Chain Management.

Daily rate trend for Supply Chain Management in the UK

Supply Chain Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Supply Chain Management over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Supply Chain Management in the UK

Supply Chain Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Supply Chain Management.

Hourly rate trend for Supply Chain Management in the UK

Supply Chain Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Supply Chain Management within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +30 63 £550 +6.02% 174
UK excluding London +26 33 £519 -6.53% 112
London +28 26 £613 +24.68% 71
Work from Home +10 23 £525 -4.55% 128
North of England +2 13 £550 +10.00% 28
North West +15 12 £550 -5.98% 19
South East +39 7 £431 -13.75% 35
East of England +25 6 £650 +30.00% 6
Midlands +19 4 £80 -85.59% 27
West Midlands +18 3 £80 -84.76% 14
Scotland +5 2 - - 6
South West +29 1 £350 -50.00% 8
East Midlands +10 1 - - 13
Yorkshire +1 1 - - 7
Northern Ireland - 1 £400 - 1

Supply Chain Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.94%) SAP SCM
3 2 (2.78%) SAP PP
3 2 (2.78%) SAP SD
4 1 (1.39%) Demantra
4 1 (1.39%) Maximo
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle ASCP
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle SCM
4 1 (1.39%) Primavera
4 1 (1.39%) SAP APO
4 1 (1.39%) SAP FSCM
4 1 (1.39%) SAP IBP
4 1 (1.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.28%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (8.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.94%) OCI
3 5 (6.94%) SaaS
4 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.17%) GCP
6 2 (2.78%) AWS
6 2 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.78%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.39%) Serverless
7 1 (1.39%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 4 (5.56%) Oracle Reports
2 3 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) Metadata
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.39%) DTS
4 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.39%) GIS
4 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 22 (30.56%) Finance
1 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (13.89%) Retail
4 9 (12.50%) Manufacturing
5 7 (9.72%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Legal
8 2 (2.78%) Automotive
8 2 (2.78%) General Ledger
8 2 (2.78%) Law
8 2 (2.78%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Local Government
9 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (18.06%) Consultant
2 11 (15.28%) Project Manager
3 10 (13.89%) Architect
4 9 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
5 8 (11.11%) Supply Chain Manager
6 7 (9.72%) Lead
7 6 (8.33%) Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Supply Chain Project Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Dynamics 365 Architect
9 4 (5.56%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
9 4 (5.56%) Functional Consultant
9 4 (5.56%) Oracle Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Procurement Manager
9 4 (5.56%) SAP SCM Consultant
10 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
10 3 (4.17%) Management Consultant
10 3 (4.17%) Supply Chain Architect
11 2 (2.78%) SAP Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) SAP Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.56%) Oracle Fusion
1 4 (5.56%) XML
2 1 (1.39%) ADO
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Core Interface
2 1 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (1.39%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.17%) Management Information System
1 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (2.78%) FMCG
2 2 (2.78%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.78%) Industry 4.0
2 2 (2.78%) NHS
3 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.39%) IoT
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Life Science
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.39%) PACS
3 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) Taxonomies
3 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (26.39%) Problem-Solving
1 19 (26.39%) Project Management
2 15 (20.83%) ERP
2 15 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (19.44%) Inventory Management
4 10 (13.89%) Data Modelling
4 10 (13.89%) Project Delivery
5 9 (12.50%) Logistics
6 8 (11.11%) Agile
6 8 (11.11%) Analytics
6 8 (11.11%) Data Migration
6 8 (11.11%) Migration
7 7 (9.72%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (9.72%) Decision-Making
7 7 (9.72%) Roadmaps
8 6 (8.33%) Mentoring
8 6 (8.33%) Process Improvement
8 6 (8.33%) Supply Chain Planning
8 6 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (6.94%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.72%) SQL
2 4 (5.56%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.39%) Python
3 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) HNC
3 3 (4.17%) HND
3 3 (4.17%) Master's Degree
3 3 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.17%) PMP
3 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.78%) SAP Certification
5 1 (1.39%) MOS
5 1 (1.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.17%) PMO
3 2 (2.78%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) MOM
Vendors
1 21 (29.17%) SAP
2 9 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 8 (11.11%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) Rockwell
5 2 (2.78%) Sage
5 2 (2.78%) Siemens
6 1 (1.39%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.39%) IBM
6 1 (1.39%) Planview
6 1 (1.39%) QAD
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.39%) ServiceNow